cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32229456
Berkeley has officially ended single-family only zoning and legalized multifamily housing citywide!!!
Passing early this morning, Berkeley legalized duplexes, quadplexes, and small apartments across the city, effectively eliminating single-family zoning.
It took 6 years. 6 fucking years.
Thank you to the housing expert Jordan Grimes.
Props to the activist Sam Greenberg who showed up with this sign:
Thank you to the Nobel-Prize winning physicist who wrote a letter to the Berkley Council:
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/439f2266-ca6d-4a6d-b03c-ed0e12922f2a.jpeg
This is a WIN for housing in the Bay Area ๐ฅณ๐ฅณ๐ฅณ
